Challenge your knowledge and creativity by participating in the
4th International Student Competition of the LE:NOTRE Institute! The
competition and the forum will focus on the landscape of Gozo in the
Mediterranean Sea.

Gozo is the
smaller sister island of Malta located in the north of the archipelago.
Around 30,000 inhabitants share this small territory of approximately 67
km2. The Island of Gozo is to be developed as ECO ISLAND.

This contest is part of the 7th Landscape Forum of the LE:NOTRE
Institute. The working period is from October 10, 2017 – January 21,
2018. The forum itself will be hosted by the University of Malta in
cooperation with Anhalt University of Applied Sciences from March 20 –
24, 2018.

This international
competition aims to discuss the future of living in and with our
landscapes using the example of a potential ECO ISLAND in the
Mediterranean Sea. The local potential is seen in the context of the
grand challenges of our times as summarized by the following keywords:- Climate change- Digitalisation- Migration- Globalisation- Individualisation- Urban Sprawl- Biodiversity Loss

Furthermore, two relevant local tendencies are to be integrated: Eco & Heritage Tourism, and Regional agricultural production and marketing

The participants are asked to reflect how these challenges will
affect the island of Gozo over the coming decades. They are then asked
to design a vision of how an ideal response to those challenges could be
exemplified on Gozo. Based on a holistic understanding of the landscape
and its various social and environmental layers, the response should be
formulated from a human perspective: How do we want to live in and with
the landscape of Gozo in 2050?

The LE:NOTRE Institute invites any discipline to participate in this
reflection and visioning process. Proposals need to take at least three
of the above mentioned grand challenges into account. The scenario
logic needs to be built on that basis. Ideally, students will get
together in multidisciplinary teams.